eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

What is STEAM and STEM activity? Much STEM and STEAM activity happens in labs. A STEM or STEAM lab is an environment where students, irrespective of grade, can come together and actively participate in hands-on STEM and STEAM learning. These educational spaces encourage active learning and problem solving.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

(We began referring to our students as scholars, because we expected that they take an active approach to their education, and participate in interdisciplinary project-based learning, and internships.)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

This new age of teaching and learning will be more integrated into the day-to-day, more interdisciplinary, and more based on the lived experience of the teacher and student. Incorporate mindfulness into lessons: Introduce brief mindfulness or meditation activities during online classes to help students manage stress and improve concentration.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis. The general public and scientists combine their efforts to carry out large-scale activities so that the labor involved in the projects is distributed.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

The Center provides spaces for innovative and interdisciplinary teaching and learning where students can learn in novel formats, develop and prototype new products and services through a design-thinking approach, and collaborate. Its new Academic Innovation Center (AIC) opened just this past fall.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. One student wondered aloud whether certain activities would seem too ordinary to other teenagers. An idea floated about using social media as part of a classroom activity.

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